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February 9, 2011

This year I wanted to buy something special for Valentine's Day. So I searched my favorite dress shop, Modcloth. I couldn't decide whether I wanted to go for sultry or sweet. I had it narrowed down to two frocks when I realized that the sultry one was sold out. Then (of course) it became the one I wanted. It was actually rather expensive anyway. With shipping it would have been close to $100. And I don't like to spend more than $60 on a dress and even then it's gotta be something special.

So, I decided to try and recreate it. Here was the Modcloth version. I tweaked a couple things but I think it came out pretty good. And I only paid $25 for the material and notions. It would have been even less but I bought duponi silk for the bodice and ruffles which is $12 a yard at JoAnn's with a 40% off coupon. So this dress is probably even made of better material than the Modcloth version.

My favorite part about this dress is the ruffles at the bottom. It gives it some body in the skirt and looks like cake confection. I also added the pintucks under the bustline. And the back has a nice deep V that reaches below the bra line. I wore a normal bra with this and the only thing that showed was the hooks in the back which can be hidden by safety pinning the bra below the zipper.....I'm skillfull that way;)

I will be wearing this to our Valentine's Day dinner but if any of you would like the chance to own this dress after that I will be offering it up to one lucky Grosgrain reader. I'll only be wearing it one night but I just want to be clear that I will be wearing it before it gets sent.Grosgrain Giveaways can be entered by any ONE of four ways1) By linking about this giveaway (to your blog, facebook, or any other site) button is below.
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I know it has to be a ton of work to sew as many as you used to, but these are always my favorite posts! You always add your unique spin/embellishments to your dresses. As a fellow sewist, they're incredibly inspirational!

Your dress is AMAZING! The colour, the style, it really just screams "wear me to a fantastically amazing event!". I'm sure it will be THE dress of any event... and I would truly LOVE for it to come live at my house!!

This is so beautiful I can't even find the words! I follow you on twitter (I'm Corvustristis, surprise surprise), have been following your blog's RSS feed via Google Reader for ages, and absolutely adore the detail work on this dress.

Holy cow. Pick me, pick me!! I've been craving a dress for some reason lately (the sexiness of winter's down filled, shapeless coats and 3 layers of tights/leggings, perhaps?) and now you tease me with this amazingness in red AND with pintucks?!?!

Very lovely dress :) I love the pintucks and the ruffles. You're very courageous, making ruffles take soooo long, I hate that ^^ (it's my first comment on your blog (I ♥ it ^^), I'm French and don't speak english very well :-/ )

GORGEOUS! As always though, of course. I can't get enough of your creations--they are all so beautiful and unique, I just LOVE your work! I follow your blog as well as twitter, and I tweeted about this great giveaway. Great job, you're amazing!

Gosh I'd love to win this! You're so generous, how can you give this away?! If I owned something like this I'd never take it off! I think I'd put it on and just stand and swish side to side admiring it!

Your version is so much better than the Modcloth dress, but then again, when one has skills like you I'm sure that happens all the time!